McKinsey Consultants Replace PowerPoint With AI Hub

Business Insider reports that McKinsey consultants have cut back PowerPoint usage after adopting AI-enabled workflows. Business Insider reports that Kate Smaje, McKinsey's Global Leader for technology and AI, observed a rapid drop in PowerPoint use as employees began "vibe-coding" with AI tools. Business Insider reports that engagement manager Louis-Charles Genereux built an AI-assisted website, which he calls the "client visualization hub," for a North American cable project involving about 70 people. Business Insider reports that Genereux described the hub as making the latest work more searchable, structured, and available in one place, and said it saved the team time and reduced disconnects compared with circulating a living PowerPoint deck.

The article highlights a shift from slide-decks-as-living-docs toward centralized, searchable project hubs. Industry-pattern observations: teams replacing running decks typically combine a shared content store with search, metadata, and retrieval-augmented workflows to avoid version-control drift and long slide scrolling. The Business Insider coverage uses the term "vibe-coding" to describe faster iterative prompts and AI-assisted content generation; this maps to broader adoption of short prompt-driven iteration in knowledge management workflows.

For practitioners, the case is an example of enterprise teams applying generative AI to internal collaboration rather than only to client-facing deliverables. Industry-pattern observations: when organizations move to searchable hubs, expected technical work includes building robust indexing, access controls, and update pipelines to keep the hub authoritative relative to distributed artifacts like emailed slide decks.

Observers should look for published examples or templates of "client visualization hub" architectures, details on access control and audit trails for client data, and whether other consultancies publish similar internal tooling or measured productivity gains. Business Insider is the sole source for this report; McKinsey has not published a public technical write-up in the cited coverage.